On Monday, 4 March 2019 10:48:33 UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/4/2019 9:45 AM, True North wrote:
On Monday, 4 March 2019 10:04:03 UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
Hate it when a snow storm "over-delivers".

Two of them in as many days is unfair.
We have about 16 inches of the stuff
in some places.


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We're getting your 2nd storm right now...after just finishing the shovelling yesterday afternoon. Getting tiresome. I'd think about a nice little single stage Honda snowblower if the guy on the corner didn't have one. The French people next door have a blower also but he's already working in Montreal while his wife and kids finish our the school year here. Last month she did dig her snow blower out and seemed to enjoy playing with it. If I just stay in bed a while longer one or other of the neighbours usually clear my walkway and sometimes the driveway. haven't had the chance to use my little electric blower the last few years. :-)



I saw a couple of guys this morning trying to use under-powered gas
snowblowers in the wet, heavy snow of last night. Stuff barely made it
out of the snow chute.

I imagine you'd have to go slow and steady in those conditions....not trying to bite off more than the blower can chew and spit out.

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:04:00 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


Hate it when a snow storm "over-delivers".

Two of them in as many days is unfair.
We have about 16 inches of the stuff
in some places.


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I had a mulch delivery set up for tomorrow with some yard guys coming the next day. Had to cancel as
the yard is just a big mud puddle.

Mr. Luddite
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From about 4-5 years ago:

http://funkyimg.com/i/2S2C8.jpg

After one storm the house and barn were featured on a Boston news
station report:

http://funkyimg.com/i/2S2Ci.jpg

For some reason, I saw that pic and was reminded in Dr Zivagos palace.

https://flavorwire.files.wordpress.c...drzhivago2.jpg

On 3/4/2019 10:52 AM, Tim wrote:
Mr. Luddite
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From about 4-5 years ago:

http://funkyimg.com/i/2S2C8.jpg

After one storm the house and barn were featured on a Boston news
station report:

http://funkyimg.com/i/2S2Ci.jpg

For some reason, I saw that pic and was reminded in Dr Zivagos palace.

https://flavorwire.files.wordpress.c...drzhivago2.jpg



The blue thing on the left is one of her horses wearing a coat.



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Keyser Söze
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Tim wrote:

8:00 AMKeyser Soze
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Well, of course, Fretwell is in the same class intellectually and in
terms of innovation ability as Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, et al. Right. I
get it.
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He’s probably smarter, just wasn’t in the right place at the right time...


Snerk. The world needs a better tiki bar.
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I was looking at the blue thing on the right running the tractor

On Monday, 4 March 2019 11:52:42 UTC-4, Tim wrote:
Mr. Luddite
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From about 4-5 years ago:

http://funkyimg.com/i/2S2C8.jpg

After one storm the house and barn were featured on a Boston news
station report:

http://funkyimg.com/i/2S2Ci.jpg

For some reason, I saw that pic and was reminded in Dr Zivagos palace.

https://flavorwire.files.wordpress.c...drzhivago2.jpg

That summer house always reminds me of the time a group of us picked up a couple quarts of wine from the bootleggers and drove my brothers VW micro bus out to a cabin way back in the woods in a former gold mining district. Got there at 0200hrs in the morning after getting stuck at least once on the old road leading in. Inside it was frost everywhere...even on the blankets. This was mid February. No electricity...only an old stove oil type heater and the line was frozen. My BVI buddy gave up after an hour and threw himself under the frost covered blankets. i kept at it until i had the stove working.

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:04:00 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


Hate it when a snow storm "over-delivers".

Two of them in as many days is unfair.
We have about 16 inches of the stuff
in some places.

I am getting plenty of use out of my new air conditioner ;-)

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:17:29 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:



Hate it when a snow storm "over-delivers".

Two of them in as many days is unfair.
We have about 16 inches of the stuff
in some places.

The rule in DC is it can snow any time up until Easter and that seems
to always seem to work out, although you are more in the sleet and
freezing rain area than North West and Monkey County.

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:48:28 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/4/2019 9:45 AM, True North wrote:
On Monday, 4 March 2019 10:04:03 UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
Hate it when a snow storm "over-delivers".

Two of them in as many days is unfair.
We have about 16 inches of the stuff
in some places.


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We're getting your 2nd storm right now...after just finishing the shovelling yesterday afternoon. Getting tiresome. I'd think about a nice little single stage Honda snowblower if the guy on the corner didn't have one. The French people next door have a blower also but he's already working in Montreal while his wife and kids finish our the school year here. Last month she did dig her snow blower out and seemed to enjoy playing with it. If I just stay in bed a while longer one or other of the neighbours usually clear my walkway and sometimes the driveway. haven't had the chance to use my little electric blower the last few years. :-)



I saw a couple of guys this morning trying to use under-powered gas
snowblowers in the wet, heavy snow of last night. Stuff barely made it
out of the snow chute.

That was why they never caught on in Maryland. Snow is usually wet
there. My FIL had one in DC and it seldom actually worked for him.

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:55:08 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/4/2019 9:51 AM, True North wrote:
On Monday, 4 March 2019 10:46:28 UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/4/2019 9:28 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/4/2019 9:19 AM, Tim wrote:
Mr. Luddite

Hate it when a snow storm "over-delivers".

Two of them in as many days is unfair.
We have about 16 inches of the stuff
in some places.


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1-3â€� slushy snow yesterday with breeze.Â*Â* Now it’s sinny and 5 above.
Might hit 20 today...


When we had the large house with the 1,000 ft driveways I decided one
year to invest in a plow for my F-250 thinking it would pay for itself
over a few years and be fun to boot.

The "fun" part didn't last long.Â* Plowing can be a pain in the ass,
especially when there's a foot or more of it following several storms.
After a while you can't plow because there's no place to push the snow.
I'd have to fire up the JD tractor and move it around with the front
end loader.

Nice now.Â* If there's a storm coming, I just stock up on coffee, food
and the essentials and watch out the window as the hired, younger guys
with trucks and plows do the driveway.





From about 4-5 years ago:

http://funkyimg.com/i/2S2C8.jpg

After one storm the house and barn were featured on a Boston news
station report:

http://funkyimg.com/i/2S2Ci.jpg

and then there was me doing my thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiVbot4gxu4

Was that the footage shown on ABCs The Chronicle when they did an item on Real Estate a couple years ago. Mrs E went international on that one.



Yeah. We had put the house up for sale and they were doing a report
on the difficulty of selling in the winter months.

They are going in a week or less down here. The one across from me
went the first day it was listed. I guess all of those folks up there
are getting tired of SALT, the stuff on the road and the stuff that
comes out of their wallet.